And which ones are probably examples where we’ve fooled ourselves? Every once in a while — multiple times per year — a new research finding fails to line up with our theoretical expectations. In […]
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Flow Research Collective COO Rian Doris explains how to harness the power of your nervous system to find your flow during a pandemic.
Researchers from Japan add a new wrinkle to a popular theory and set the stage for the formation of monstrous black holes.
The author of “Auroville: The City Made of Dreams” talks about the difficulties of establishing (and writing about) utopian societies.
Google’s “Year in Search 2020” results reveal a year when “why” was searched more than ever.
It’s an incredibly useful approximation. But the truth takes us far deeper. Anyone who’s ever taken a physics course has learned the same myth for centuries now: that any object thrown, […]
Famously, it took Edison over one thousand attempts to successfully create the lightbulb.
Meet Deinococcus radioduranst, the world’s toughest bacteria.
A recent study used data from the Big Five personality to estimate psychopathy prevalence in the 48 contiguous states and Washington, D.C.
Attending religious service once a week found to lower risk of suicide and other “deaths of despair”
In late April, the news hit us hard: Lorna Breen, an emergency room doctor in a Manhattan hospital flooded with coronavirus patients, committed suicide. According to her father, the emotional […]
Mathematics is the most useful tool we have for understanding the Universe. But it doesn’t answer to anything on its own. At the frontiers of theoretical physics, many of the most […]
The rings are raining down onto the planet, and disappearing surprisingly fast. 4.5 billion years ago, our Solar System first formed. Protoplanetary disks, which all solar systems are thought to […]
Love a good villain? It says a lot about you.
As the Universe ages, will it eventually fade away entirely? The earliest signal we’ve ever directly detected from the Universe comes to us from shortly after the Big Bang: when […]
Astrophysicists calculate the likely number of civilization out there capable of communicating with us.
Tweak the way you’re coping and you can lower your anxiety levels.
While Mars is known as a frozen, red planet today, it has all the evidence we could ask for of a watery past, lasting for approximately the first 1.5 billion […]
We’ve almost got the entire story. James Webb will put the last piece into place. In all of science, there are really only two ways that something can be “known” to […]
Attractive women are especially likely to dress modestly, but only in certain scenarios.
It’s something most adults don’t understand very well. So what should you tell a child? If you’ve ever had a conversation with an inquisitive, curious child, you might have experienced that […]
Simply getting into grad school isn’t enough. The answers to these three questions can make all the difference. It’s time. You’ve done all your research into schools, completed your undergraduate […]
A new study on rats suggests that using marijuana as an adolescent “reprograms the initial behavioral, molecular, and epigenetic response to cocaine.”
It’s absolutely true that atoms are mostly empty space. But removing even that empty space is impossible, and this is why. If you were to take any object in the Universe […]
What do we want to do with convicted criminals? Penology has several philosophies waiting to answer that question.
Time runs backward there. Other physicists are not convinced.
MIT Professor Sinan Aral’s new book, “The Hype Machine,” explores the perils and promise of social media in a time of discord.
Washing your hands with soap and water can help protect against the coronavirus. But only if you do it correctly.
Winston Churchill had a secret army, and bunkers like this would have hidden them during a German invasion.
We know what effective teaching looks like. Implementing it can change the lives of Americans.